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Gov’t ends 5-year delay for new North-West ferry with signing of contract
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government on Wednesday ended a five-year delay in moving the process forward in acquiring a new ferry to ply the Georgetown to North-West route with the signing of a contract to begin…
Canada backs Guyana for legal settlement of border controversy; says Maduro’s decree is…
Canada has backed Guyana’s stance for there to be a legal, binding settlement to Venezuela’s claim of Guyana’s territory, saying that the recent decree of Nicholas Maduro is concerning.
“Venezuela’s recent claim that it has sovereignty…
Bi-partisan Foreign Relations Committee agrees on continued vigilance of Guyana’s territory
The bi-partisan Parliamentary Sectoral Committee on Foreign Relations met on Monday to discuss President Nicholas Maduro’s latest decree in which he lays fresh claims to the water and seabed adjacent to Guyana’s coast, west of the Essequibo…
U.S reiterates support for Guyana in border controversy
The United States (US) has reiterated its support for Guyana in light of the latest decree issued by Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro in which he lays fresh claims to the water and seabed adjacent to Guyana’s coast, west of the Essequibo River.…
Harmon joins President Ali in condemning Venezuela’s “preposterous decree”
See below full statement by Opposition Leader, Joseph Harmon
Leader of the Opposition, Hon. Joseph Harmon, joins with all patriotic Guyanese in condemning the preposterous decree issued by the President of the Bolivarian…
Guyana ‘entirely rejects’ Maduro’s latest decree
Guyana’s Head of State, President Irfaan Ali in an address to the nation on Saturday rejected in its entirety the latest decree issued by Venezuela’s Nicholas Maduro in which he lays fresh claims to the water and seabed adjacent to Guyana’s…
Indonesia Sriwijaya Air passenger plane missing after take-off
BBC - A passenger plane with more than 50 people on board has gone missing shortly after take-off from the Indonesian capital Jakarta.
The Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737 lost contact en route to Pontianak in West…
Ambassador Lynch ‘deeply shocked’ by events at U.S. Capitol
See below full statement from United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah Ann Lynch, on the storming of Capitol Hill by sympathisers of President Donald Trump:
I am deeply shocked and saddened by the events which took place at the U.S.…
The US has confirmed its first case of the new, more transmissible coronavirus strain
(Business Insider) Roughly two weeks after the UK announced that a new coronavirus strain was likely responsible for an uptick in cases in the south of England, the US confirmed its first case of that same strain.
The infected person, a…
Int’l lawyers in border controversy case say ICJ ruling ‘reasonable, favorable’
Two international lawyers representing Guyana’s interest in the ongoing border controversy case have said that the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was both reasonable and favourable.
The statement from the…
